Sony is totally lacking the mindset for proper software development. And that won't play out well in the smart device world. They are a semiconductor company.
Criticism:
Why is it still a Windows installer? The tool is written in Java and could in theory run on Linux and Mac OS as well.
Why do we still have to fiddle around with USB and files in order to edit the channel list?
Why do we still have to use a computer in this mobile driven world we are living in?
Usability/Bugs:
No way to sort favorite channels. When trying to drag and drop a favorite channel to another position, the view changes to the full channel list. Only the full channel list seems to be sortable. Favorites are automatically sorted based on the full channel list. That doesn't make sense. One should never have to mess with the full channel list. What if I want to have different sorting on Favourites-1 and Favourites-2? Not possible...
It took me several minutes to figure out how I can add a channel to the favorite list. One has to mark the channel(s) and then hit the 'Edit Favourites' button. I would have expected some 'Add to Favourites' button or a right-click context menu...
Favorites don't have their own consecutive numbering. But that's a problem of the whole channel concept, not the editor. It is pretty hard to remember channel numbers if they are random and each time you do switch the channel by number on the TV, the favorites mode is left and the full channel list is activated.
Deleted channels keep lingering around without a name and cannot be moved.
Channel management on Sony is screwed in so many ways. I am just scratching the surface here. Basically, the whole DTV/DVB part needs to be ripped out and re-imagined as this is simply not usable.
